Planning to Kill a Fourteenth-Layer Ancestral Immortal

Since all the items from the small lottery were useless junk, Ian Song decided to try the Medium Draw.

After spending a million Prestige, the Medium Draw began.

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining one top-grade Immortal Artifact!"

"Heh!"

Ian Song was speechless. A top-grade Immortal Artifact was great for ordinary Immortals, but to him, it was completely useless.

"Forget it, let's just go for a Big Draw. At a hundred million Prestige per spin, I should finally get something good!"

Switching to the Big Draw interface, Ian Song tapped the screen, and instantly, a hundred million Prestige vanished.

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining one Substitute Life Talisman!"

With a thought, a jade talisman covered in mysterious runes appeared in Ian Song's hand. Instantly, he understood its purpose: the Substitute Life Talisman, when carried, would die in his place if he ever faced a fatal catastrophe.

"Now that's a pretty useful item!"

Ian Song finally broke into a satisfied smile. Looks like only the Big Draw can produce real treasures. Sure, he had the Resurrection Divine Art, but that could only revive him once, and it came with a cooldown. If he got killed twice in one day, he’d really be dead.

Now, with this Substitute Life Talisman, he could die twice.

"Let’s spin again!"

Ian Song tapped again. The lottery pointer spun!

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining one Heavenly Thunder Talisman!"

Immediately, a jade talisman crackling with lightning landed in his hand. Its details imprinted directly into his mind: this was another one-use consumable.

It could lock onto any living being below the Lower God level and attack. The chance of the target dying was over 99.9%.

Basically, it was nearly a guaranteed kill.

And since it worked on anyone below the Lower God level, even a fifteenth-layer Ancestral Immortal hit by this Heavenly Thunder Talisman would be doomed.

"Now that’s what I call awesome!"

Ian Song was fired up. That meant, if he ever took a dislike to some fifteenth-layer Ancestral Immortal, he could just smack them with a Heavenly Thunder Talisman and they’d be toast. This was the ultimate tool for showing off.

"The Big Draw really delivers!"

Ian decided to take advantage of his lucky streak and go for a few more spins.

Keep going!

The lottery pointer spun again.

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining one Ice Arrow Talisman!"

Soon, a transparent jade talisman landed in Ian Song’s hand. This was another offensive talisman, and it too could nearly guarantee the annihilation of any living being below the Lower God level.

This time, Ian tapped the Big Draw five times in a row, burning through five hundred million Prestige.

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining one Unbeaten Talisman!"

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining one Calamity Misfortune Talisman!"

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining one Enlightenment Talisman!"

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining one Divine Beast Summoning Talisman!"

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining one Divine Summoning Talisman!"

He drew five divine talismans in a row. After learning what each one did, Ian Song was thoroughly satisfied.

First, with the Unbeaten Talisman activated, he’d be invincible for one hour. Of course, there were limits—in the Immortal World, it wouldn’t work against anyone above fifteenth-layer Ancestral Immortal.

Next was the Calamity Misfortune Talisman. If someone got hit with this, their luck would turn permanently rotten—unless they died, the misfortune would never fade.

If he had a mortal enemy, using the Calamity Misfortune Talisman would make their life a living hell.

As for the Enlightenment Talisman, activating it would send him into a state of profound epiphany, causing his strength to skyrocket. How much his cultivation improved would depend on his own talent.

Then there was the Divine Beast Summoning Talisman. Once triggered, it would call a god-level beast to fight for him, but only for a brief fifteen minutes.

The summoned beast would follow his every command and was absolutely barred from harming him.

The Divine Summoning Talisman worked similarly, except it summoned a god-level humanoid Divine. The duration was also just fifteen minutes, and the summoned Divine would obey his every command.

Seeing all these amazing items, Ian Song couldn’t help but feel a little regret—if he’d known, he would’ve started using the Big Draw much sooner.

With just the Unbeaten Talisman, he could have safely let the Crimson Haze Divine Sword fully manifest its visions.

Thinking of this,

He started plotting how to use this opportunity to really shock the Ancestral Immortals, so they’d stop causing trouble—and, ideally, take out a fourteenth- or fifteenth-layer Ancestral Immortal.

Rumor had it the Ling Family had a fourteenth-layer Ancestral Immortal. The question was, how could he lure that Ancestor out?

After some thought, Ian Song came up with a plan.

But before anything else, he wanted to use the Enlightenment Talisman and see if he could break through to first-layer Ancestral Immortal.

Since all these talismans came from the System, using them was simple—just silently will it in his mind and lock onto the target.

He silently willed the use, locked onto himself, and the Enlightenment Talisman in his hand turned into a milky-white glow that merged into his body. Instantly, he entered a mysterious, profound state.

Ian Song didn’t know how long he’d been under. It felt like that state had lasted for a thousand or even ten thousand years, yet at the same time, it seemed only a few breaths had passed.

So he asked Old Ling how long he’d been like that.

He was told only a day had passed inside the temple.

"Just one day, huh!"

Ian checked his cultivation. He’d reached the peak late stage of Mystic Immortal and was touching the membrane to Ancestral Immortal. As soon as he synthesized his own Dao, he could break through to first-layer Ancestral Immortal.

Meanwhile, his Chaos Primal Force had more than doubled, and his soul had quietly completed its third transformation during this time—he’d already been close after consuming the Divine Power-refined Golden Liquid last time.

With this third soul transformation, his Soul Divine Art: Illusion had become even more incredible. When he used it, the effects might be completely unexpected.

His physical body had also undergone further strengthening.

All things considered, he felt confident he could go head-to-head with even third- or fourth-layer Ancestral Immortals.

Now that his strength had risen across the board, it was time to put his plan into action.

Three days later.

A message spread throughout the Zilong Immortal Domain: Ian Song planned to gift the artifact Crimson Haze to one of the Eight Great Families. Which family would receive it would be decided by strength—the Eight Great Families were to send their strongest Ancestral Immortal to a tournament, and the last one standing would win his Crimson Haze Divine Sword.

As word of this spread,

The Eight Great Families all scoffed. How could a mere Mystic Immortal dare to provoke a contest among them? He must have a death wish.

For a time, the Eight Great Families ordered a full-scale search for Ian Song.

Days passed, but the Eight Great Families found nothing.

At that moment, Ian Song issued another bold statement: If the Eight Great Families didn’t give a definite reply within ten days, he would seal away the Crimson Haze Divine Sword forever, never letting it see the light of day again.